It’s like the Government is playing a game of “let’s misread the room” and winning spectacularly. Or maybe they’ve just lost touch with reality. Last week, we were treated to the Government Chief Whip Hildegarde Naughton launching a campaign to tackle the oh-so-pressing issue of period taboos.
In the first week since Scotland introduced new hate-crime legislation, Scottish police received more than 7,000 hate-crime complaints. It sounds less like a legal development and more like a new national sport.
Ah, the thud of campaign leaflets hitting the welcome mat. It’s election season again, that time when our aspiring politicians grace us with their presence. And by presence, I mean a glossy flyer that promises the moon on a stick.
I write to you not just as a citizen but as a voice of people who have been sidelined for too long by policies and practices that have systematically failed us. This letter seeks an acknowledgment by way of a state apology and a commitment to change – a change that systemically respects the inherent dignity, rights, and autonomy of disabled children, adults and their families as equal members of society.